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"woodening" a metal file cabinet

Does this sound doable to anyone? I have a beat up old 5 drawer file cabinet that works good. I have an office I am working but butt off to fix up so I also have no money to buy a wood cabinet but don't want a ratty metal one in there, even if I repaint it. Could I build a 1 x whatever wood "skin" around it and glue a wood drawer front on the metal, so from the outside it looks like a wooden file cabinet but on the inside hides the ratty tin box?